“Drawing from a sample size this large multiplied by two decades multiplied by hundreds of thousands of test answers has put me in a good position to offer the following advice to any reader of this paper with children in Florida’s K-12 public schools. Get them out now before you ruin their life.“

“The nation’s security and economic prosperity are at risk if America’s schools don’t improve, warns a task force led by former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Joel Klein, the former chancellor of New York’s school system.“

“The Board of Education decided in an emergency meeting Tuesday to lower the passing grade on the writing portion of Florida’s standardized test after preliminary results showed a drastic drop in student passing scores.”

[Really? NCLB did that? ASND simply asks, “What was it in NCLB that ‘unleashed a nationwide epidemic of cheating? Was it the required accountability for teachers, to which the rest of the world’s workers are also held (well, except union workers, of course)? The rest of the world simply responds by regularly checking for cheating and then imposing consequences upon cheaters. Why can’t government schools do the same as the rest of the world (well, again, except for union jobs)?]

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Less than 1/3 of government school pupils in the 4th grade are reading proficient for their grade level.

“More than 2 million U.S. college students this fall will be spending a good bit of their time reviewing what they were supposed to learn in high school or even earlier. They are taking “remedial” education courses.”